Ora BPEL thru OSB - associating message with correct conversation

Associating Messages with the Correct Conversation
When using stateful services, the messages sent synchronously between Oracle Service Bus and Oracle BPEL Process Manager are known as a conversation. Oracle BPEL Process Manager supports the following mechanisms for ensuring that messages are correctly associated with each other as part of a conversation. These mechanisms are independent of each other, and you may choose to use both to ensure correct association.

• BPEL Correlation – BPEL correlation is part of the BPEL specification. When a WSDL-based business service in Oracle Service Bus sends a message to a BPEL process, the BPEL engine examines the message to find the target BPEL process instance.
  
• Opaque Correlation using WS-Addressing – When a conversation is initiated by a client through Oracle Service Bus to a BPEL process, the BPEL engine looks in the WS-Addressing SOAP header for the "messageID" value to use as the ID for the new conversation. The conversation ID is carried through the conversation as the "RelatesTo" value.
  

 "MessageID" and "RelatesTo" are used to store the conversation ID in conversations between Oracle Service Bus and Oracle BPEL Process Manager, making sure related messages remain in the same conversation.
The BPEL transport does not let you specify whether a given operation is a start or continue operation. Instead, the BPEL transport looks for the "MessageID" and "RelatesTo" properties and sets them accordingly.
The following describes how the BPEL transport uses "MessageID" and "RelatesTo" in synchronous and asynchronous conversations:

• Synchronous conversation: In the initial request, the "MessageID" determines the conversation ID. In the remaining communication, the BPEL transport provides the conversation ID as the RelatesTo value.
  If there is no value assigned to "MessageID" or "RelatesTo," the transport assumes either no conversation is occurring or that Oracle BPEL Process Manager is handling the correlation.
  
• Asynchronous callbacks - In the initial request, the "MessageID" determines the conversation ID. In the remaining communication, the BPEL transport provides the conversation ID as the "RelatesTo" value in the callback.
  If there is no value assigned to "MessageID" or "RelatesTo," the transport assumes either no conversation is occurring or that Oracle BPEL Process Manager is handling the correlation.
  

Refer:

Correlation illustrated

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